The fog is finally lifting and it's time for me to find out what I missed in the week I was absent. So there was a lot of talk of the Mike Smith hit on Voros. I decided to search youtube to find out what all the hub bub was. Well it looks like he was taking some liberties. I know that goalies do pokes and punches when the players are "up in their grill" but that just started getting silly. Looks like they were in a 5-3 situation (could be wrong but announcer said that when Lundqvist was on the bench it was 6-3) and you don't take stupid penalties when you are down 2 men. He took exception to Voros being in the vicinity you poke him push him. He whacked him in the outer leg with his stick then pushed from behind and punched him. Then Voros had enough. Now if I'm the TB D I think I'm going to intervene in that situation. That's my goaltender.
While on YouTube I saw Andrew Ferrence vs. Sean Avery Nov 1 2008. I started thinking, what was I doing Nov. 1 when someone finally got to beat the snot out of that Avery kid? Then I remembered. I was at UVM hockey.
Well I saw that fight and the hit that lead up to the fight Ferrence vs. Ott. Then I saw another youtube Bruins Line Brawl Nov. 1, 2008. Well that looked interesting so I took a gander. Ott apparently started with the cheap shots and the B's were just responding. At some point the blame for this had to go to the refs. Why couldn't they do something before it got so out of hand? It was like the Stars were begging the officials, please take us out of this game. Finally Ott got a 10 minute misconduct with 8 minutes to go but the damage had been done already. I'm one of those people that think that fighting has a place in the NHL. I think that it helps to solve a lot of the problems on the ice. If you think that I cheap shotted you or someone on your team and didn't get a call for it I expect someone to come over and give it to me. It's a message, and it has to be sent. There isn't room in hockey for these kind of shenanigans though.
